Just a reminder:
Your excavation postings and your journal/documentations are due each Wednesday by noon.
NO LATE POSTINGS OF ANY KIND. If you do not meet the deadline, you will not receive credit, no exceptions. Your grades are in your own hands.
In order for me to sweep the blog and read all postings, your personal 'mining' blog must be linked to the main class blog. To do this you must be an author. To be an author, you must have sent me your gmail address so that you can be invited.
also: l caution you to read the excavations posted before you for each week.
You may not duplicate any posting that has already been posted. Last week I sent emails and replied to duplicate postings, but after this week, this is your responsibility. I will not give credit for any duplicate postings.
lastly: please give a brief description of the lecture or event in your posted excavations. Sometimes lecture titles do this, and oftentimes NOT. Entice us.
Your excavation postings and your journal/documentations are due each Wednesday by noon.
NO LATE POSTINGS OF ANY KIND. If you do not meet the deadline, you will not receive credit, no exceptions. Your grades are in your own hands.
In order for me to sweep the blog and read all postings, your personal 'mining' blog must be linked to the main class blog. To do this you must be an author. To be an author, you must have sent me your gmail address so that you can be invited.
also: l caution you to read the excavations posted before you for each week.
You may not duplicate any posting that has already been posted. Last week I sent emails and replied to duplicate postings, but after this week, this is your responsibility. I will not give credit for any duplicate postings.
lastly: please give a brief description of the lecture or event in your posted excavations. Sometimes lecture titles do this, and oftentimes NOT. Entice us.
Sustainability Seminar series - Cool Plasma Gasification
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Kris Skrinak - President of adaptiveARC, Inc.
Date Jan 31, 2013
Time 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
Cost Free
Sponsor Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
Contact Nancy Holm
E-Mail naholm@illinois.edu
Phone 217-244-3330
Event type seminar
Views 204
Originating Calendar Illinois Sustainable Technology Center seminars and events
Brown Bag: Faculty Fellows Robert Brunner and Ted Underwood
ReplyDeleteWednesday 30 January 2013
12:00PM
NCSA Building #1040
1205 W Clark, Urbana
Robert Brunner, Department of Astronomy, and Ted Underwood, Department of English, will describe progress they have achieved so far during their 2012-2013 fellowship collaborations with NCSA. Brunner's project focuses on Collaboratively Exploring the Dark Universe while Underwood is working on An Implementation of Topic Modeling that Addresses Humanists' Interest in Historical Change.
Abstract (Brunner's talk): Large astronomy surveys hold the potential to address fundamental questions about our Universe. But to fully leverage the utility of these data require new approaches. One area where this has become fundamentally clear is source classification, where we must cleanly separate stars from galaxies. In this presentation Brunner will review this classification challenge, discuss some recent work, and highlight how this work is relevant to NCSA.
Title (Underwood's talk): "Learning to recognize literary genre in a collection of documents that are internally heterogenous"?
Abstract (Underwood's talk): The problem of classifying text has received a great deal of attention in the field of machine learning. But classification algorithms are typically tested on collections of relatively short documents — articles, for instance, in newspapers or journals. Historians and literary scholars confront a different problem domain. Documents come to us in volume-sized packages that contain heterogenous parts: for instance, a collection of poems and plays may be prefaced by a prose introduction. Fortunately, segmenting volumes and classifying genres can be viewed as mutually supportive aspects of a single workflow. The models we develop in a first pass at genre classification can be used to divide volumes into segments that are generically distinct along simple axes (e.g. poetry/prose, fiction/nonfiction). Once that division is complete, we can train subtler classification models on the segments and learn to distinguish subgenres (e.g. lyric poetry or the detective story). The whole problem is interestingly complicated because literary texts can belong to more than one genre, and domain experts don't necessarily have an exhaustive list of genres. So at later stages of classification, the process may take on an unsupervised or semi-supervised character. I've completed the first stage of classification (poetry/drama/prose fiction/nonfiction) in a collection of 500,000 volumes; I'll present those models and describe a prototype segmentation algorithm that relies on them.
Lecture: From Evolution to Abortion-Teaching controversial topics
ReplyDeleteThis lecture teaches successful strategies for engaging controversial material without offending both sides of the topic. Great for if you are a teacher or just interested in debates.
Speaker: Megan Haselschwerdt and Kathryn Trenshaw
Date: Jan 31, 2013
Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: 142 Psychology Building
Cost: Free
Sponsor: CTEN
Learn to Cook: Heart to Heart
ReplyDeleteFeb 2, 2013 (Sat)
11am-1pm
ARC Instructional Kitchen
$15 members / $18 non-members
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, come join us as we honor American Heart Month by teaching heart healthy recipes perfect for the people closest to our heart!
More information about registration on the website.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3541?key=201302022013020226813984
Quench: Twenty Year Panel: Looking Back and Looking Forward, LGBT Resource Center Celebrates 20 Years
ReplyDeleteDate Feb 4, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location 314A Illini Union
Sponsor LGBT Resouce Center
Contact Leslie Morrow
E-Mail lkmorrow@illinois.edu
Phone 12172448863
Views 5
James Warren Hall, Associate Dean Student Affairs/MSP, College of Medicine; Curt McKay, Former Director of LGBTRC & Patricia L. Morey, Assistant Dean, Director, Women's Resources Center
Ehekapahtinime: Ancient Discpline of Breathing & Posture Exercises
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Akaxe Yotzin, Young Master of Ancient Nahua Traditions
Date Feb 1, 2013
Time 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Location
La Casa Cultural Latina, 1203 W. Nevada St.
Cost Free
Sponsor
Native American House, La Casa Cultural Latina
E-Mail nah@illinois.edu
Phone 217-265-0632
Event type Event
Lecture: Richard Graff (Writing Studies, University of Minnesota)
ReplyDelete"Spaces of Oratorical Performance in Ancient Greece: Reconstruction, Interpretive Visualization, and Assessment"
Richard Graff
Date: January 30, 2013
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: 1000 Lincoln Hall
This event is free and open to the public.
About this event:
This talk will present chief findings of a long-term collaborative, interdisciplinary study of the physical settings in which ancient Greeks practiced the art of rhetoric. These include a variety spaces and structures from the late-Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods (ca. 500-100 BCE) utilized throughout the Greek world as venues for the performance of formal oratory-- principally, buildings that housed meetings of city councils (bouleuteria), auditoria utilized for larger citizen assemblies, and various structures fitted for use as law courts. In addition to providing a much-needed synthesis of the archaeological, literary, and historical evidence for these spaces and structures, the study utilizes both traditional and emergent research methods to elucidate the ways in which the physical settings structured communicative (inter)action and group deliberation. 3D digital modeling and other forms of advanced visualization have been utilized to identify salient architectural-spatial and acoustical variables and to assess them in terms of the opportunities and challenges they presented to both speakers and audiences.
The talk will summarize the inventory of speaking sites considered in the study and the methods of analysis and interpretation utilized in it. It will then illustrate these methods by considering a few significant but neglected structures, and a single well-known, but enigmatic one -- the meeting place of the Athenian assembly called the Pnyx.
Lecture Series: Consuming Chango: The Place of Afro-Cuban Religion in Recent Cuban Film
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Emily McGuire, Associate Professor. Departament of Spanish and Portuguese. Northwestern University
Date Jan 31, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location 101 International Studies Building
Sponsor Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Contact Angelina Cotler
E-Mail cotler@illinois.edu
Event type Lecture Series
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=27293564&calMin=201301&cal=20130114&skinId=1
Vegan Cooking for EVERYBODY @ the co-op
ReplyDeletehttp://commonground.coop/?event=vegan-cooking-vegan-cooking-for-everybody-2
you gotsta book your seat at the link if you wantsta go.
Date/Time
Date(s) - Thursday, Jan 31
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Flatlander Classroom (300 s. broadway)
"Beyond the Legend: Cesar Chavez, Charismatic Leadership, and the Relevance of Accountability"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker
Matt Garcia, Professor of History and Transborder Studies, Arizona State University
Date: Jan 29, 2013
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 1090 Lincoln Hall
Sponsor: Departments of Latina/Latino Studies and Media and Cinema Studies
E-Mail: lls-studies@illinois.edu
Phone: 265-0370
Info: In September 1962, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) convened its first convention in Fresno, California, initiating a movement that would result in the creation of United Farm Workers and the first contracts for farm workers in the state of California in 1970. Led by Cesar Chavez, the union contributed a number of innovations to the art of social protest, including the most successful consumer boycott in the history of the United States. By the mid-1970s, the United Farm Workers pursued justice within the boundaries of a state law, the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act in 1975, and the implementation of state-monitored union elections on California farms in 1976. In spite of these triumphs, Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers lost their way by the late 1970s, never to regain the strength they enjoyed during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In his presentation, Matt Garcia, author of the new book "From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement" (University of California Press, 2012), discusses the lessons from the movement and why it is important to hold Cesar Chavez accountable for its failure to achieve its primary goal: the establishment of a national farm worker union. Garcia avoids presenting Chavez as an apotheosized saint prevalent in most other renditions of this history. Rather, Garcia reveals him to be a man subject to emotions and impulses that shape all of us. His presentation explores the consequences of more than forty years of Chavez hagiography and why we need to begin exploring the complexities of his character and the union he lead. Ultimately
"An Evening With Keith Boykin: A Celebration of Black LGBT History Month"
ReplyDeleteMonday, February 4
7pm lecture, 8pm Q&A
314A Illini Union
Keith will discuss his latest book-- For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home. It responds to the crisis of youth development and suicide in the black community, specifically among young gay men of color. Following his presentation, there will be a book signing and reception in room 314A Illini Union.
Here's the Facebook page which has a ton more info about who Keith is:
http://www.facebook.com/events/123916121112911/?notif_t=plan_user_invited
reviewed by HARRISON
Deletereviewed by Molly
Deletereviewed by ANNE
Deletereviewed by Brianne
Deletereviewed by ROSHNI
DeleteVCHP Brownbag -- Gary Dell -- UIUC
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Gary Dell
Date Jan 30, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location 819 Psychology
Sponsor VCHP
Contact Dan Simons
E-Mail dsimons@illinois.edu
Event type Brown Bag
Views 134
Info: Retrieving words while speaking: What Freud got right about speech errors
Interviewing Skills Workshop
ReplyDeleteDate Feb 5, 2013
Time 6:00 pm
Location 2063 BIF
Sponsor KPMG
Event type Workshop
Views 78
Originating Calendar Business - Business Career Services
Looking to ace your interview skills prior to your interview? Come stop by 2063 BIF on February 5th from 6:00 ' 7:00pm to learn more about interview tips and tricks. Presented by Jessica Bartch from KPMG.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/891?eventId=27467633&calMin=201301&cal=20130125&skinId=236
reviewed by COURTNEY
Deletereviewed by BECCA
DeleteFACULTY RECITAL: Philipp Blume, composer
ReplyDeleteSaturday, February 02, 7:30 PM
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Foellinger Great Hall
reviewed by LINDA
DeleteSpring 2013 Scholarship of Sustainability Series
ReplyDeleteThis series "The Cultural Contexts of Environmental Decline" will explore the cultural contexts of contemporary environmental problems, beginning with recognition that human behavior underlies all problems and that behaviors are complexly linked with cultural patterns. The nine sessions will begin on Thursday (Jan. 31) from 4-5:30 p.m. in Room 124 Burrill Hall, 407 S. Goodwin Ave, Urbana.
Sex & Gender Film Series: "12th & Delaware"
ReplyDeleteDate Jan 31, 2013
Time 6:30 pm
Location Women's Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. MC-302, 2nd Floor, Champaign, IL 61820)
FREE
Event type: WRC Documentary Film Series
Doors open at 6:30 pm, Film at 7:00 pm. 40th Anniversary of Roe v Wade
Film Summary: On an unassuming corner in Fort Pierce, Florida, it's easy to miss the insidious war that's raging. But on each side of 12th and Delaware, soldiers stand locked in a passionate battle. On one side of the street sits an abortion clinic. On the other, a pro-life outfit often mistaken for the clinic it seeks to shut down (Sundance)
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http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/12th-and-delaware/index.html
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2345?eventId=27515634&calMin=201301&cal=20130128&skinId=2292
Lunch @ La Casa - "To Play With Wholehearted Abandon"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Isabela Seong-Leong Quintana
Date Jan 31, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location - La Casa
1203 West Nevada Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Lecture: Chinese and Mexican Girlhood in Los Angeles during the 1920s-30s
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3114?eventId=27521289&calMin=201301&cal=20130128&skinId=2292
reviewed by Carolina
DeleteCondensed Matter Seminar: eXtremes of Heat Conduction in Materials
ReplyDeleteSpeaker
Prof David Cahill -
Head - Dept of Materials Science and Engineering - University of Illinois
Date Feb 1, 2013
Time 1:00 pm
Location
190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
Sponsor: Physics
Thermal conductivity is a basic and familiar property of materials that has played a pivotal role in condensed matter science for at least 150 years. In this talk I will emphasize recent examples of extreme behavior--and behavior under extreme conditions--where the physics is not well understood: we do not yet know the lower limit to the thermal conductivity of a fully dense material or the upper limit to the conductivity of a polymer or the mechanisms that limit thermal transport by spin excitations. Our measurements of heat conduction in novel materials are enabled by variety of ultrafast optical pump-probe metrology tools developed over the past decade. At the low end of the spectrum, solids that combine order and disorder in the random stacking of two-dimensional crystalline sheets show a thermal conductivity that is only a factor of 2 larger than air; the cause of this extreme behavior may be explained by the large anisotropy in elastic constants that suppresses the density of phonon modes that propagate along the soft direction. Extremes of high pressures (up to 60 GPa) allow us to continuous change phonon densities of states and phonon lifetimes to test theoretical predictions. The thermal conductivity of aligned, crystalline and liquid crystalline polymer fibers can be surprisingly high but not as high as needed for applications in thermal management. Low-dimensional quantum magnets demonstrate that electrons and phonons are not the only significant carriers of heat. Near room temperature, the spin thermal conductivity of spin-ladders is comparable to the electronic thermal conductivities of pure metals.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/598?eventId=25882300&calMin=201301&cal=20130128&skinId=1
LinkedIn Tech Talk (Anmol Bhasin, Director of Engineering)
ReplyDeleteTime: 6pm OR 5:15pm (see below!!) Thursday, Jan 31, 2013
Location: Siebel 2405
Anmol leads a stellar team of engineers and scientists working on Recommender Systems, Site Personalization, Information Extraction & A/B Testing systems at LinkedIn. His group’s contributions to the LinkedIn experience include LinkedIn Today (News), Jobs & Groups Recommender Systems, Ad Targeting and CTR prediction systems, A/B Testing platform, Unified Contect Processing Pipeline for Information Extraction and data canonicalization across all of our primary data components.
LinkedIn is looking for interns and new college graduates who want to learn, grow and work with some of the brightest technical talent in the world.
*Attention*
Only weird thing is that the ACM website says the lecture starts at 5:15pm, and the Computer Science calender says 6:00pm...
ACM: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/calendar/2013/1/28#details/1213
Computer Science: http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2654?eventId=27522163&calMin=201301&cal=20130131&skinId=2864
Bee-Friendly Environments for Native Bees
ReplyDeleteFlatlander Classroom
300 South Broadway - Urbana
Date/Time
Date(s) - Tuesday, Feb 5
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
There are about 20,000 species of bees worldwide, and about 4,000 species are native to the USA. Many of our native bees struggle with health and pest threats similar to those facing honey bees. We will compare the plight of the honey bee and native bees, and discuss ways in which we can help, including planting bee-friendly flowers and providing safe nesting habitats. The important contribution that bees make to human food diversity will also be covered. A list of bee-friendly flowers and woodworking plans for building a native bee nesting box will be provided.
Led by Maggie Wachter
Healthcare Disparities Presentation
ReplyDelete· January 30, 2013 6:00pm
· Location: Medical Sciences Building 2nd floor Auditorium
"Join Dr. Monica Vela, Associate Dean for Multicultural Affairs and course director of “Health Care Disparities in America” at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in a presentation about health disparities. Come to learn how healthcare providers can make a difference."
The House I Live In: A Film about The War on Drugs
ReplyDelete7:30PM, Tuesday, Feb. 5th
The Art Theater
126 W. Church, Champaign
In the last 40 years, the War On Drugs has accounted for over 45
million arrests. This film, produced by Danny Glover, Brad Pitt and
Russell Simmons, is the first critical analysis of the War On Drugs
to hit the big screen.
●Hear Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow,
and David Simon, creator of The Wire, reveal how we ended
up here.
●Hear people in more than twenty states tell how the War on
Drugs ruined their lives and the lives of their loved ones.
●Listen to inspiring activists tell us how we end this war
After the film, CUCPJ members will speak about local efforts to oppose the War on Drugs.
<<<PANEL DISCUSSION w/Champaign Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice
here's a trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0atL1HSwi8
"I’m wary of implying that it’s your civic duty to see “The House I Live In,” but — guess what — it is."
Delete-Ty Burr, Boston Globe
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2012/11/01/movie-review-the-war-drugs-hits-home-the-house-live/sBMziwzcUmwe8W5OMwSVPL/story.html
Astrophysics Colloquium: Kaitlin Kratter, JILA, University of Colorado: "Looking Ahead: Planets and their Binaries"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Kaitlin Kratter
Date Jan 31, 2013
Time 4:00 pm
Location 134 Astronomy
Sponsor Astronomy Department
Contact Brian Fields
E-Mail bdfields@illinois.edu
Event type Colloquia
Views 544
Originating Calendar Astronomy Colloquium Speaker Calendar
In this talk, I will discuss the intersection of binary formation and planet formation from various perspectives. First, I will consider the formation of objects whose observational properties confound the theorists trying to form them, and the observers trying to classify them. I will then move on to discuss the formation and architecture of binary star systems that host planetary systems. I will focus on circumbinary planets around main-sequence stars. I will explain why young, tight binaries pose a conundrum for theories of star formation, and why their planets may provide strong constraints on their formation history. Finally, I will review the dynamics of our own local circumbinary planetary system: the Pluto-Charon satellite system, and connect it to recent exoplanet discoveries.
ICMT Seminar: "Pattern Formation from Competing Interactions: Implications for Soft and Hard Condensed Matter Systems"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Charles Reichhardt (Los Alamos)
Date Feb 4, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location 190 ESB
Sponsor Dept. of Physics
Event type ICMT Seminar
Views 216
Originating Calendar Physics - Institute for Condensed Matter Theory Seminar
I will give an overview of how systems with competing interactions such as repulsion on one scale and attraction on another can generically give rise to bubble, stripe, clump, and other patterns. The same patterns can occur for systems with purely repulsive interactions provided there are two or more distinct length scales in the potential. I will show how these patterns can arise in soft matter systems, charge ordered systems, neutron stars in the form of pasta phases, and vortex states in multi-band superconductors. Under application of an external drive these systems can also exhibit numerous nonequilibrium phase transitions that produce pronounced changes in the transport properties. I will also discuss how pattern formation in these systems can be influenced by a patterned substrate such as a periodic array of two-dimensional pinning sites.
Nahui Ollin: The Four Principles of Movement According to the Ancient Nahua Traditions
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Akaxe Yotzin, Young Master of the Ancient Nahua Traditions, Temachtiani of the Native American Arts & Science of Chikomostok Academy
Date Feb 1, 2013
Time 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Native American House
Cost FREE
Event type Chat 'N Chew
Sponsored SCPF
E-Mail nah@illinois.edu
reviewed by Linda
DeleteCognitive Brown Bag -- Pat Watson
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Pat Watson
Date Feb 1, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location 819 Psychology
Sponsor Cognitive Division
Contact John Hummel
E-Mail jehummel@illinois.edu
Event type Brown Bag
Views 52
Originating Calendar Psychology General Calendar
What Errors in Reconstruction Tell Us About the Organization of Memory
Developmental Brown Bag -- Chris Fraley -- UIUC
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Chris Fraley -- UIUC
Date Feb 1, 2013
Time 1:30 pm
Location 819 Psychology
Sponsor Developmental Division
Contact Renee Baillargeon
E-Mail rbaillar@illinois.edu
Event type Brown Bag
Views 121
Originating Calendar
Solar System Safari!
ReplyDeletePresent day to March 16th
every saturday at 7:00
Parkland College Planetarium
Tour the solar system! Take a tour of the sun, the moon, planets, dwarf planets, etc. and learn about each of their unique characteristics. Also a special highlight about the current status of pluto (bless its tiny icy soul).
$5 adults, $4 students seniors and kids.
Mariama (Busey Evans Residence Hall Black Student Union) is having a program on colorism (Entitled: Dark Skin vs. Light Skin) tomorrow Thursday 1/31/2013 at 7pm. Located on the corner of Godwin and Nevada. I welcome any and everyone to attend. I am specifically looking for persons who have some academic insight (in terms of research) on the issue to help facilitate or speak tomorrow. If interested please send me a message or respond to this post. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteIfeyinwa Onyenekwu, MSW
Doctoral Student, Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign onyenkw2@illinois.edu
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Please note you can watch the live streaming of the sessions of the International Symposium " Afrika N’Ko: Africa in the World : Debating the Colonial Library” being held in Dakar, Senegal from 28 to 31st January 2013 by CODESRIA – DFG – Point Sud on CODESRIA’s Web Site: www.codesria.org
Miniature Mobile Robots Down to Micron Scale
ReplyDeleteProfessor Metin Sitti
Mon, 02/04/2013
2005 Mechanical Engineering Lab
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
MechSE Seminar
Miniature mobile robots have the unique capability of accessing to small spaces and scales directly. Due to their small size and small-scale physics and dynamics, they could be agile and portable, and could be inexpensive and in large numbers if they are mass-produced. Miniature robots would have potential applications in health-care, bioengineering, mobile sensor networks, desktop micro-manufacturing, and inspection. In this talk, dynamics and control of different size scale miniature robots with various locomotion capabilities are presented. First, as milli/centimeter scale mobile robots, mechanics, design, and control of climbing, flying, and water-walking robots inspired by insects and lizards are presented. Pill-size untethered soft capsule robots are proposed to enable minimally invasive medical diagnosis and therapeutic operations inside stomach. Next, going down to sub-millimeter size mobile robots, the grand challenge is the limitations on scaling down on-board actuators and power sources. Two alternative approaches are proposed to solve this challenge. First, biological cells, e.g. bacteria, attached to the surface of a micro-robot are used as on-board micro-actuators using the chemical energy. Current status of this approach is reported briefly while focusing on a second approach: external actuation of untethered magnetic micro-robots using remote magnetic fields in enclosed spaces. New magnetic micro-robot locomotion principles based on rotational stick-slip, spinning and rolling dynamics are proposed. Vision-based control schemes are used to control teams of micro-robots using novel addressing methods where each robot in the team could be individually actuated while the global magnetic fields exerted on each robot is the same. Such untethered micro-robot teams are demonstrated to control microfluidic flow locally and manipulate micro-gels with embedded cells with or without contact inside microfluidic channels.
reviewed by SELINA
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ReplyDeleteAnnie Sprinkle, Ph.D.
EcoSexologist, Multi-media Artist, & Sex Worker Rights Activist
In-Residence at Unit One/Allen Hall 2/3-2/7
Sunday, February, 3
1pm - Annie Sprinkle: MY LIFE & WORK AS A PLEASURE ACTIVIST, PERFORMANCE ARTIST, RADICAL SEX EDUCATOR and ECOSEX PIONEER (in the Main Lounge)
Annie Sprinkle has made SEX her life’s work for four decades. She was a prostitute and porn star who recreated herself as a pivotal player in the 1980’s sex–positive feminist movement, became a tantric sex guru, an internationally acclaimed performance artist, and a sexologist with a PhD. Now the grrrlll has gone green and has come out of the closet as “ecosexual,” taking the Earth as her lover. Annie will share her life’s work, do mini-performances, and stimulate discussion.
reviewed by SEANO
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DeleteCSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Kuwait: The Transnational Trajectory of an African Literary Classic"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker
Wail Hassan, Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Date
Feb 5, 2013
Time
12:00 pm
Location
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
Sponsor
CSAMES; Center for African Studies
ReplyDeleteFRENCH -- Dr. Samir Meghelli, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African American Studies: "Paris Is Still Burning: Rap, Race, and Riots in Postcolonial France"
Speaker Dr. Samir Meghelli, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African American Studies
Date Feb 5, 2013
Time 5:00 pm
Location Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
Cost Free and open to the public
Sponsor Department of French
FEBRUARY DANCE 2013
ReplyDeleteWho : Dance at UIUC
When : Saturday 02 February 2013 | 7:30PM
Where : Colwell Playhouse, KCPA
February 5 - Lunchtime Series at the Asian American Cultural Center - 1210 W. Nevada, Urbana
ReplyDeleteThe Effects of Our Economy on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
Christina Aujean Lee, Department of Urban Planning